What's a Book You Wish Was in the Public Domain?

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m8b1 wrote: January 25th, 2022, 8:16 am Just so you know, the 1st book was originally published under the title "To and Again". There is a copy on archive that should be useable for Librivox. It is not currently full view, but the copyright page is viewable. They should open it up next year when it falls out of copyright. :-)
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maxgal wrote: January 25th, 2022, 9:21 am
Mozartjr wrote: January 25th, 2022, 7:58 am
m8b1 wrote: January 25th, 2022, 7:44 am

The first one will be PD next year, as it was published in 1927. :-)
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Here's another one I wish was in public domain: Enemy Brothers, by Constance Savery. It's a novel for kids about War World II.
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Freddy the Pig is awesome! When I was in elementary school we had a 9-hour car ride to go visit our grandparents multiple times a year, and reading made most of us incredibly carsick. My mom would borrow the Freddy audiobooks from the library so we could listen to them in the car. Our other favorites were Barbara Brooks Wallace books such as Sparrows in the Scullery, Peppermints in the Parlor, etc. (which alas, I just checked, are very far from public domain.)

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Post by geoscoutCJ »

So many great books in this thread! I think for me it would be Greenglass House by Kate Milford. It is such a delightful mystery book, with such a unique (to me) setting, and a beautiful underlying narrative. I would love to try to bring the characters to life.

P.S. In checking Google to verify the author's name, I found out this is a series! I guess I need to read the next books in the set now...
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When The Neverending Story enters public domain, I'll be about 80 years old. And then I can play Morla the Old in a DR of it. I'm calling dibs now, btw.
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Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse. It is very descriptive and detailed.
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Amen to all those!
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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

Many chapters of footnotes would be needed :lol:
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I think all books now are in the public domain and it's possible to find everything having enough desire and time. Or am I wrong?
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gagiha wrote: April 2nd, 2022, 1:11 pm I think all books now are in the public domain and it's possible to find everything having enough desire and time. Or am I wrong?
Uh, yeah, you're wrong. :) "Public domain" means "not under copyright". You better believe that publishers and authors keep their works copyrighted for as long as they can!

As a general rule of thumb, books fall out of US copyright after 95 full years after publication. So a book published in 1940 is still under US copyright (and will be public domain January 1, 2036).
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The Price of Salt OR Carol by Patricia Highsmith. It's tied for my all-time favorite book and the audiobook version of it I heard didn't have the same emphases that were in my head. :lol: Also, in 2029, The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury will be 50 years old and I LOVE reading that book out loud and would desperately want to record that one.
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I'll allow myself to dream for a moment...I'd love to record someday something by Chilean science fiction writer Hugo Correa, such as his volume of short stories "Cuando Pilato se opuso".

And something from "Songs of the Dying Earth", a collection of short stories by different authors to honour Jack Vance. :D
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maxgal wrote: January 16th, 2022, 11:41 am
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